Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 3:56 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland had meetings from 2016 to 2019 with the co-founder of a Neo-Nazi-styled fascist party in Ukraine.
The meetings were revealed in a report published Tuesday by True North News, which claimed that both Trudeau and Freeland met with Andriy Parubiy, who served as a type of legislative speaker in the Ukrainian Parliament from 2016 to 2019.
Parubiy helped build Ukraine’s far-right neo-Nazi movement, and in 1991 co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), which was a Nazi-styled party focused on “racial nationalism.”
The SNPU was renamed the Svoboda Party in 2004, with one of the goals being to remove ultra-extreme elements from the party along with Nazi-themed imagery. However, today it is still considered an “ultranationalist” party with some fringe elements attached to it.
According to True North, Trudeau first met with Parubiy in 2016 in Ottawa, as part of a meeting that was detailed by the Ukrainian Embassy to Canada. Also at the meeting was then-Minister of Defence Harjit Sajjan.
In July 2016, Trudeau again met with Parubiy on a visit to Kiev, Ukraine. Freeland
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